commit d4e996256f340d244ba5e40b10c286b603ffc5e3
author Andrew Kutz <101085+akutz@users.noreply.github.com> Thu Sep 24 09:56:14 2020 -0500
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Thu Sep 24 09:56:14 2020 -0500
tree cd4ddcde68e05234b5b9db2d8bce51bbb438af40
parent 62dae9ebf3e42b8a23e929f2903200189da3802e
parent 45f316dbdd05b89de69ded0e6d42ec797c302bc0

Merge pull request #56 from akutz/feature/rm-deepmerge-dep

Remove deepmerge dependency

DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py

diff --git a/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py b/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
index 298be76..12a614d 100644
--- a/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
+++ b/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
@@ -570,7 +570,10 @@
     """
     addr = None
     try:
-        addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val)
+        try:
+            addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val)
+        except ipaddress.AddressValueError:
+            addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val.encode('utf-8'))
     except:
         return False
     if addr.is_link_local or addr.is_loopback or addr.is_unspecified: